by Françoise Chandernagor · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253141044
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«L'Enfant des Lumières» is the historical novel by Françoise Chandernagor, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (508 pages, in French).
In the eighteenth century, after the count's ruin and suicide, his widow flees with her son Alexis to the countryside. She decides to educate him to make him invulnerable, even if to achieve this she is willing to pass on a complacent morality. Set at the end of the Ancien Régime, the novel asks whether it is right to harden one's children and what values to pass on.
Work originally published in 1995; this edition by LGF/Le Livre de Poche dates from 1997. The cover bears the number 14104.
For readers of historical fiction interested in pre-revolutionary France and the dilemmas of raising children.
Françoise Chandernagor is a French writer. The daughter of André Chandernagor, she is a former student of the École nationale d'administration, and she became a member of the Council of State in 1969.
